Flash CS3 Animation and Audio not timed properly when packaged.

Question

I am trying to create a simulation with audio, mouse movement, mouse clicks and screen changes. When I play the movie in Flash, the animation and the audio are timed properly. However, when I package it, the animation falls behind the audio. I am using wavs for the audio - I've tried mp3s also.
I have a screen displayed with a mouse. The audio and a highlight indicate the next step, then the mouse moves and clicks the desired area - with a audio mouse click. The first "click" sound is pretty close to where it is supposed to be, but as the movie plays, it begins to occur earlier and earlier. So much so, that the audio starts to begin prior to animation is complete later in the move. This is not a real long demonstration, only about 1100 frames, but I notice the problem around frame 180.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

IE stinks. There's a huge performance difference when playing
SWFs in
Firefox and IE. We have seen SWFs reach 100fps in FF 3.0
while the same SWF
taps out at around 40fps in the latest IE browser. It's not
Flash, it is the
browser.
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> This has me baffled to no end. I have a flash file
that's behaving rather
> odd.
> Even the original author doesn't have an answer. I work
on a WinXP system,
> if
> that matters. When I test the movie within Flash CS3, it
works as
> expected: the
> animations ends as the audio fades out. When I publish
it, and I open it
> up in
> Firefox, it works as expected. But that's where it ends.
On the same
> machine,
> if I view it in Internet Explorer, the animation takes
longer - it plays
> slower. Consequently the audio ends before the animation
is done.
>
> I've tried multiple WinXP machines, they all do the same
thing. In Firefox
> it
> works as expected and the same way as previewed within
Flash CS3. But,
> viewing
> it in IE, and the animation plays longer.
>
> Wanna see it for yourself? Look at the original author's
page:
>
http://www.flashmo.com/preview/flashmo_137_intro/
>
> Open it up in IE and Firefox, side by side if you can.
Does it play
> correctly
> in both (animation ends as the music fades) ?
>
> Suggestions anyone?
>